The U.S. is marking a milestone — 250 years since the Declaration of Independence. That founding document — along with the ...

NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with U.S. historian Jill Lepore about her new book, "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution." The writer Jill Lepore wrote a history of the United States called ...

Historians say a White House prayer anthology and 250th anniversary events promote a Christian-centric view of US history.

Race did not spread because it was scientifically persuasive. It spread because it served very human interests.” ...

We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. In "We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution" (to be published Sept. 16 by Liveright), Harvard professor and ...